Improvement in a toy-velocipede



dilated $151123 NATHAN s. WARNER, orr BRIDGEPoRnQQNNECTICUT.

Leners Patent No. 94,676, dazed Sapman 7, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

clare that the following. 1s a full, clear, and exact de scription ofthe construction, character, and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which make part of this specification, in Which- Figure l is a perspective view of the toy complete, except a small part vbroken away to show the main spring' and one of the gear-wheels which give the motion.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a section of the same, showing the universal joint.

My improvement consists in the use of a universal joint, which allows the imitation-person to sit in any desired position, to represent the character of the real velocipede and its rider.

I make the toy-velocipede with three wheels, substantially as represented in fig. l.

I connect the hind wheels with the front wheel and the imitation-person, by means of an axle, C', and the forked longitudinal bar D, and the universal joint at a b, or by any plain joint; and I connect the hands c and d, of the image E, with a lever. p

And 4I use a suitable spring, as represented at e,` fig. 1, and-suitable gear-wheels to give the necessary motion to the whole machine; and also, cranks, for the imitation-feet, as represented at g, iig. 1.

Having made the parts, and connected them, as before described, and represented'in the drawings, I wind up the springe in the usual way, and adjust the universal joint c b, or plain joints, to the desired curve, and set it upon a table, floor, or any other horizontal surface, when the toy will move in a circle of any desired radius, (or it may run in a right line, if desired,) producing a complete imitation of the operation of the common three-wheeled velocipede, worked by a live man.

I claim as my invention, and desire tol secure by Letters Patent The universal joint a b, constructed as shown, when forming a part of a toy-velocipede.

N. S. WARNER.

Witnesses:

M. H. HAWKINS, It. FrrZeEnALD. 

